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5 Reasons Why Businesses Still Love Microsoft

We’ve all become so used to having Microsoft in our lives that we’ve started to take their products and services for granted. We don’t think about how much Microsoft does to make our lives easier, especially at work. However, Microsoft is behind the scenes at most businesses – both large and small – enabling them to operate more efficiently and grow more quickly.

Teens In Tech Comes To LA | TZ Gets You In On The Cheap

After three years of being in Silicon Valley, the Teens in Tech Conference is expanding, and coming to Los Angeles! Join them on Saturday, December 17th, at Microsoft’s Los Angeles office for a conference all about youth, entrepreneurship, media, entertainment, startups, and more. Founder and CEO of Teens In Tech Daniel Brusilovsky was kind enough to offer up our readers 50% off any ticket price.

Take Back Your Internet, Leave Klout

Klout, PeerIndex, Kred, and even Empire Avenue need to go away. These metrics-application rely on our need to know our “value” and will only continue to perpetuate the dilution of online engagement. This is an open call to the people that use these services, or are simply indexed by them, to opt-out and delete your presence on Klout, Kred, PeerIndex and Empire Avenue.

Google me, Tweet me, Facebook me: The Action of Tech Platforms

‘Facebook me,’ ‘tweet it,’ ‘Shazam that;’ in the world of tech, your name is not just a service or brand, it is your verb. The stakes have been raised. The goal is not only to create a brand but rather the hope of becoming everyday jargon referring to the action in which you provide. In the world of social, sharing, and online apps, becoming a verb may be the difference between life and death of a company.

Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

When tickets went on sale over a month ago, we expected the regular ticket sales cycle, however we were more than surprised when Startup Weekend LA sold out in 6 hours! That’s right… just about the same amount of time it takes to sell out a Radiohead show at the Forum. When LASW kicked off Friday evening at Coloft, we had over 100 on the wait list and countless requests from others to join the event — even folks sneaking in and pitching (without a ticket).

Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angels

The Spotlight: LA Tech Summer event is turning to be the best one yet! Excellent companies being submitted and most of which I wish could all be part of this amazing night. To help curate and show off the best that LA has to offer we called in a few friends. So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges!

CTO RoundTable – Technology in Entertainment | Presented Live By TechZulu

Join TechZulu as we bring to you live from the Microsoft HQ in downtown Los Angeles CTO RoundTable at 7pm PST . We’ll discuss current trends in technology with in the entertainment industry.

Nevolution: I Am a PC App Store

At Twiistup 8 Matthew Smith (CEO) and the Nevolution team debuted what they dubbed the “future of software distribution”.

Twiistup 8 | Presented Live by TechZulu

TechZulu has been involved with Twiistup for quite some time now. We love startups, entrepreneurs and being able to bring you all the lastest in the startup community.

It’s A Tablet! It’s A PC! No! It’s The Samsung Sliding Tablet PC 7 Series

We first caught a glimpse of this beauty at the Microsoft Keynote the opening night of CES. Samsung announced the launch of its first sliding tablet PC with Microsoft Windows 7 operating system and powered by the upcoming Intel Atom processor platform, currently code-named “Oak Trail,” the PC 7 Series

Fable III, Fun but Familiar

Lionhead Studios is best known for its Fable IP, a fantasy ation-RPG that probably needs no introduction here, so I’ll get right down to my experience with Fable III.

Kinect motion lags, lack of depth disappointing

Last Saturday, I told you about my first experience with Kinect, Microsoft’s supposedly ber console add-on. Like I said then, Dance Central on the Kinect was a blast, but there is no way this peripheral can live up to the hype it has been building, especially with the problems I have with two of its other games, Joyride and Kinect Adventures.

‘Dance Central’ hurts oh so good

Checkout some of my Dance Central moves in action

Halo: Reach drops you into the fight

I stand on the roof of a concrete structure, surrounded by glossy purple dropships. A message comes across my headset, “Reinforcements are on their way!”

E3 moves with the ‘Motion,’ ‘Kinects’ with your body

1980. A yellow dot with a wide mouth moves across a black screen, weaving through a colored maze of ghosts while chomping even smaller white dots. PAC-Man grew to become a cultural icon, a game that would change the face of gaming, spawning new versions for nearly every platform released during last 30 years. Now,…continue reading.

Microsoft Stepping It Up With Silverlight Rough Cut Editor

During MIX10 Microsoft announced the Silverlight Rough Cut Editor (RCE).  This open source tool provides real time editing for Silverlight Smooth Streaming content.  Without any re-encoding the RCE allows editing of Smooth Streaming sources, both on-demand and Live.  Content publishers can use this tool to create real-time highlights, control dynamic meta-data, such as inserting ads…continue reading.